2022-08-26
The travesty of lockdown was unbelievable, breaking as it did with all previous pandemic thinking without so much as a hasty risk assessment.
So how did it come about?
We haven't heard much about that, no doubt because nobody wants to own up to owning it, but the Spectator takes advantage of the Tory leadership campaign to review the story according to Rishi Sunak.
Yes, it's every bit as bad as we thought it had to be. The more I hear about the workings of Cabinet meetings, the clearer it becomes how dysfunctional government doesn't just happen by accident - it is deliberately engineered.
(71 minutes)
00:00 – Welcome from Kate Andrews
01:44 – Rishi Sunak's lockdown story, with Fraser Nelson
17:37 – Lockdown's scars, with Michael Simmons
24:21 – Can Truss fix the Tories? With Andrew Neil and Katy Balls
37:34 – Has a Chinese spy infiltrated The Spectator? With Cindy Yu
46:46 – Why does Birmingham get a hard time? With Adrian Wooldridge and Richard Vinen
01:01:54 – Cow attacks aren't funny, with John Connolly
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Do we really want any member of that Cabinet (none of whom resigned over the blatant silencing of questioning voices) as our next prime minister?
